Showing posts with label tubular selvage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tubular selvage. Show all posts
17/11/2014
Picture perfect - but I forgot :-(
Meg (over here) called all weavers to publish "beauty shots" of something woven.
I decided to participate, but... I forgot. What can I say? Old age, other things to occupy my mind, or just hopelessly sloppy?
Anyway, too late or too late, here are my contributions:
A "sun screen" with cotton warp (fishing line for accent), horsehair weft, fan reed:
Scarves with differential shrinkage:
More differential shrinkage ('cos it photographs well... or, at least, looks interesting)
Even if I am too late, kudos to Meg, and get over too look at the other contributors! (link at top)
21/08/2010
A tubular selvage for differential shrinkage
After some experimenting, I have constructed a threading for a tubular selvage that works well for differential shrinkage.
Using this:

I now get this:

instead of this:

Here is a longer artcle on how and why. (Swedish version here)
Using this:

I now get this:

instead of this:

Here is a longer artcle on how and why. (Swedish version here)
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